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Five Irish novelists to read while you wait for the new Sally Rooney novel, Intermezzo

Like many others, I have been waiting with bated breath for the publication of Irish literary sensation Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, in September. Rooney is at once a distinctive voice in contemporary literary fiction and the generational product of a particular moment in Irish history. As such, and in…

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Michael Magee: ‘There’s a disbelief at how I’ve ended up’

The Belfast novelist on moving between memoir and fiction in his prize-winning debut, turning down a spot on Granta’s best young British novelists list and why Lords of the Rings was his ‘gateway drug’

The Guardian - UK

Paul Murray and Fern Brady win inaugural Nero book awards

Booker-shortlisted author Murray and standup turned memoirist Brady won in the best fiction and nonfiction categories, alongside debut and children’s fiction winners Michael Magee and Beth Lincoln

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Hot off the press: authors pick their page-turners for summer

From murder mysteries to comic novels, Maggie Shipstead, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nina Stibbe, Paul Murray and other authors choose unputdownable favourites for your summer break

The Guardian - UK

Where are fiction’s real working-class heroes?

Letter: Working-class lives are unlikely to be properly represented in fiction if the publishing industry is run by middle-class graduates, says Nick Moss

The Guardian - UK

Close to Home by Michael Magee review – Belfast struggles

This taut debut about a working-class young man wrestling with masculinity and lack of opportunity feels like a genuinely necessary book

The Guardian - UK

Everyone wanted me to have a literary rival – I got drunk with him instead

I’d been endlessly geed up about the ‘other Belfast novelist’, as if we were obliged to be enemies. I wasn’t having it, says writer Rachel Connolly

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